Locking means for assembled types



June 17, 1930. w, E, REM/.5 1,764,119

LOCKING MEANS FOR ASSEMBLED TYPES Filed April 6, 1929 gwvento'o MELMO REA W8 Patented June 17, 1930 UNITED STATES 'WINIRED ELMO REAVIS, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA LOCKING MEANS FOR ASSEMBLED TYPES Application filed April 6, 1929. Serial No. 352,976.

This invention relates to printers equipment, and it has especial reference to a means for locking up individual lines of assembled types. In certain arts, as for example, in the book binding art, it is desirable to impress single lines of type in rapid succession, one or a number of impressions of each individual line. Since a single line of assembled types, if not supported, cannot be readily handled without disturbance or fall ing apart, the facility of handling such single lines of type so that they can be quickly incorporated into a chase or holder and .then quickly removed therefrom, is of great 5 importance.

The chief object of the invention therefore, is to provide a simple arrangement by which individual lines of assembled types may be quickly locked as individual lines and with sufiicient security for safe handling of such lines. It is also a further object of the invention to provide means for facilitating speed in assembling or setting the types for the individual line required preliminary to any lock-up. Other objects will appear from the following specification in connection with the accompanying drawing, forming a part thereof, and which is illustrative of a desirable form of embodiment of the invention. In the drawing,

Fig. l is an elevational View of a device, made according to my invention, for locking up individual lines of assembled types.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view showing a line of assembled types locked up.

Fig. 3 is a front view showing a line of assembled types locked up.

Fig. 4 is a rear elevational view showlng my invention as used in locking up a line of assembled types.

Fig. 5 is an elevational view of several quads or wedges used in connection with the lock-up, and

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a composing stick.

In a general sense, my invention consists of a holder for a line of assembled types, having resilient portions which are arranged to co-operate with suitably shaped bodies or blocks to maintain the types in support for the line of assembled types, the

in the art as quads.

their assembly so that the individual line thus composed may be readily handled without danger of disturbance; it also consists of specially shaped guads or blocks which are arranged for use in association or combination with said holder to exert end pressure upon the line of types, and finally it consists of a container, on the order of a typesetters stick, for holding the types while being assembled into each line.

In a more specific sense, and referring particularly to the preferred form of embodiments of the invention shown in the drawing, my novel lock-up or holder comprises a pair of prehensile members 2 and 3 conjoined by a resilient body 1 and disposed at an angle with respect to said body. In the form illustrated the members 2 and 3 constitute portions bent at substantially right angles to the plane of the resilient body 1 to an extent not greater than the thickness of the type body, and disposed at an angle with respect to the edges of the body 1, which for convenience and ease of manufacture may be a relatively thin fiat strip of spring steel, provided with reinforcing heads 4, to give strength thereto without impairing the resiliency thereof. The holder thus described forms a guide and bent up portions or prehensile members 2 and 3 serving to limit the line of types. Means are provided for use in conjunction with the holder for causing the holder when applied to exert end pressure upon the line of types to secure the type firmly in the line holder for all ordinary handling. These means comprise blocks or wedges 5 known They are of different sizes, as is usual, but are differentiated from the ordinary quads employed, in that one edge of each of them is inclined as at 5,

the inclination corresponding to the inclination of the bent portions 2 and 3 of the resilient body 1. In Figs. 2 and 3 the use of these quads or wedges; 5 in combination with the holder is more clearly exemplified.

'When a line of types 6 is assembled, a wedge quad 5 is placed at each end of the line of types, with the inclined edges 5' thereof outside. The holder is then applied to the completed line by pressing the same thereon so that the bent portions or prehensile members 2 and 3 therof, exert a pressure upon the inclined edges 5' of the wedges or quads 5, which pressure in turn is communicated to the types. WVhen the holder has been applied, as described, the friction. incident to the engagement of the prehensile members 2 and 3 with the inclined edges 5 of the wedge quads is sufficient to secure the type firmly in the line holder for all ordinary handling. It will be understood that some variation in length of successive lines of assembled types will not prevent locking within the line holder. This is owing to the fact that the locking is effective whether the line holder engages the inclined edges 5 of the wedge quads 5 at the top or bottom, or at some intermediate portion thereof.

In order to facilitate speed in setting the types for the individual lines and to eliminate the necessity for such accurate line spacing as is ordinarily required for typesetting preparatory to any lock-up of usual design, I prefer to employ a novel container or typesetters stick, shown in Fig. 6. This container is like a. printers stick, but differs therefrom in that one end of the same is open. The face 7 of this container is provided with indicia, graduations or other markings 8 that indicate which particular pair of wedge quads is required to complete a line ready for the line holder. In practice, spacing of the type assembled in the container 7 is required until someone of the graduations or markings 8 is reached. Thereupon it will be apparent to the typesetter which pair of quads are required to complete the line, the indicia, in the form of numbers 9 or other designations indicating the quads required for this purpose. The

graduation lines are relatively broad, and

it is only necessary that each line of types be so spaced as to reach somewhere upon the graduated area, accuracy not being required because the design of the line holder as described will accommodate a considerable degree of variation in line length. This expedites considerably the setting of type.

What I claims is: V

:1. A holder for individual lines of assembled types comprising a body having inclined, yielding end portions bent at substantially right angles to the plane thereof, incombination with members at each end of .a line having inclined edges, the bent por- --tions of said resilient body arranged for cooperation with the inclined edges of said members to lock up the line of types.

I 2. A holder for individual lines of assembled types comprising a plate having inclined end walls and members arranged for engagement with the respective ends of a line of types,the outside edges of said members being inclined and co-operating with the inclined walls of said plate to hold a being inclined, and the inclined walls of said plate being adjustable on the inclined edges of said members to lock up a line of assembled types.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification. p

REAVIS.

W. ELMO 

